The end of free support on Windows 10 in October 2025 could see 240 million PCs sent to landfill because they can’t get Windows 11. Read on for some ideas of what to do with unsupported PCs.
Canalys estimates that 240 million PCs could go to landfills after October 2025 when Microsoft ends free support for Windows 10. Microsoft will provide paid support until October 2028 but it’s likely that upgrading will be cheaper.
When Microsoft released Windows 11, it did so with a requirement for computers to have TPM 2.0 support for added security but many pre-Windows 11 computers don’t support this so cannot upgrade to Windows 11.
With the requirement to obtain new hardware, the analyst firm Canalys has estimated that as many as 240 million PCs will be thrown away — even if they otherwise work perfectly fine.
